Wireless networking

[Musica25]

so i am setting up a wireless network at a church camp this summer... setting up the network is not the problem... my problem is my office is around 300 ft. from the cable modem and i have 3 computer to hook up. i am i able to get an ap have it pick up the wireless. then from the ethernet on the ap hook it up to a switch and have all the computers on the network?

tim greenwald
aim:musica25

 

[Tostada]

You're going to need to be more specific. You're not even writing complete sentences.

You're setting up a network but setting up the network isn't the problem? Obviously setting up the network is a problem to some degree, since you're having trouble connecting your office to the network. It's not clear how much of the network is already in place and what your problem actually is.

Obviously you need more than just an AP to setup a network wirelessly. It's not clear if you already have an AP or where the AP is or would be. Is your wireless network already working fine and it just doesn't have the range to reach your office? How much of the network is wired? Do you already have a LAN in your office and you need to bridge it to a purely wireless network 300 ft. away? What kinds of buildings are these? Who is actually using the network? Will they be connecting to it indoors? Does your office have line of sight to the AP?

 

[Tostada]

I think I might get what your question is ...

Are you saying you're going to hook up a wirless router to a cable modem, and that's all you need for the main part of the wireless network, but then 300 ft. away you want to have a LAN in your office that can also connect to the network?

If that's what you mean, you probably just want to get a second AP in your office that is capable of bridging to the main network, so you should do a search for wireless network bridging, and check out this:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=36&threadid=1513386&enterthread=y

 

[JackMDS]

Wirelessly Bridging Small Network.

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